dailydatewithgod

God is recognizable.  When we connect with All That Is,  presence is revealed to us in all areas of our lives.  It is as though a world in black and white gets infused with color. God wants us to live in the purples and greens, dance with the pinks, and sing with the reds.  We sometimes see coloring as a childhood activity literally and figuratively.  We seek it as a sign of maturity that we are able to distinguish the black and the white with great efficiency.  Then there is the grey. The opposite of black and white is often portrayed as grey but maybe that is because we haven’t been willing to witness all the color variations.  Just the fact that we label it all as either/or tells us that we are still in the black or white frame of mind.  God invites us to be witnesses and experimenters in all the colors, the greys, and the blacks and whites.  Every color and shade is a part of our full living experience if we want it to be.  God can used all things for good.

My prayer for us is the courage to open our eyes and witness all the colors of life and ask God how we can use them to create our life’s experience.

If it did not matter if you colored outside or inside the lines, what colors would you use to walk through your day today? Share in the comments.

God is Light!  God presence overcomes darkness by the very being of God.  We then as creations of God are equipped to do the same.  In order to be in alignment with light, we are called to draw closer to God.  The very heart of our being wants nothing more but when our world gets clouded over in darkness, we forget to attach to the luminescent experience and knowing of God.  Each breath we have the opportunity to envision the taking in of the light.  Each day we can set our intention to reignite the light within us by aligning with God.  In alignment who we are being is the luminescent presence of God for ourselves and others.

My prayer for us is the gift of remembrance of our luminating presence when we choose to tap into the light of God within ourselves.

What area of darkness do you need God’s light on in your life today so that you may embrace your own luminescence?  Share in the comments.

God is ready to make all things new.  God is open to taking what we show up with and showing us how to fashion love from it.  This is how I know that God is beyond my understanding.  How can my shame and despair be fashioned into love?  How can my fear and envy breed anything but a closed heart?  How is it possible that the worst kind of betrayal become the bedrock of love and forgiveness?  When I look at how my life started out, it is a complete miracle that I am a woman who chooses consciousness.  God has given me the gift of experiencing the power of overcoming circumstances because I was willing to see it differently.  God is gentle when I am demanding and angry.  God is patient when I am rash and ready to bolt.  God is able to show me how to be day by day, step by step, breath by breath if I am open and willing. God is not overcome by human circumstance or human thinking.  Of one thing I am certain, today is a day that I choose to be overcome by God alone.

My prayer for us is the courage to be willing to overcome our circumstances or ideas that lead us to believe that God will also be overcome by them.

If there is nothing that God cannot overcome, then what will you turn to God to show you how to overcome?  Share in the comments.

God is always reading to remind us of who we truly are.  We are given circumstances in which to reveal our true selves.  We are granted multiple opportunities to question who and how we are being in any given situation.  If we “miss out” there is sure to be another opportunity around the corner.  God is ready to use any circumstance for the good.  In God’s eyes the good is us remembering and applying who we truly are to every situation in our lives.  God wants us to resonate with out true selves because then we live from the place of truth and light.

My prayer for us is the courage to take any situation that occurs this day and ask God to show us how it can help us return to being the truth of who we are.

If we believe that God can use all things for the greater good, what might you be interested in having be your lesson in remembrance today?  Share in the comments.

God awakens our senses to an awareness of ourselves and All That Is. God invites me each day on our date to broaden my understanding of what it means to be alive in and in relationship with God.  I am never quite sure how this will show up or what it might look like but it sets a course for my day.  It is as though God is showing me that consciousness comes first and foremost from a recognition of God in all things.  As I go through the day, I hold up my end of the bargain by making an attempt to connect to the presence of God in every person and situation.  This is not easy, but it has gotten easier.  The more I let go of a fixed or preconceived notion of who or what God is, the more I am free to be conscious of God’s presence in the moment.  It is like life holds this constant joyous mystery.  There is a wonderment like of a child who is anticipating what will be under the Christmas tree after Santa has come the night before.  It gives me the courage to want to be conscious of God’s presence in my life and frees me from the thinking that knowing is my safety.

My prayer for us is the courage to let go of our preconceived notions of how God might show up today and enjoy the consciousness of being present to how God will choose to be with us today.

If God could choose to show up in a way that you were consciously open to recognizing, what would it be today?  Share in the comments.

God’s creative nature shows us what we are capable of.   Because we come from the Great Creator who designed with love and of love, we are called to do the same.  We need not make it difficult for ourselves and God does not call us to figure it out all on our own.  It is about leaning into God and connecting to the place within ourselves that knows the truth of who we are.  When we live from that place we cannot help but create more love. It becomes a flowing out of our very essence.  Like the ripples in a pond, the creative love flows from us to those around us.

My prayer for us today is the willingness to align ourselves with the truth of love’s creation that we are and ripple it to the world today.

What kind of ripples of love do you want to spread in your pond today?  Share in the comments.

In a world of multitude of possibility there lies one thread that ties it all together.  The thread of love is within everything that exists because it bears the imprint of its creator.  This is our saving grace.  Our minds are constantly searching for the difference or the answer to the question of what is wrong in any given situation.  This is helpful to discern one thing from the next and the ability to recognize change.  However, too much focus on the separation and we begin to believe it is all that exists.  Love is the one congruent force that is present in any experience, person, or idea.  God has made sure that the world cannot get very far without witnessing the handiness of creation.  Sometimes the ways that we conduct ourselves seems like the furthest thing from love.  Yet, when we drill down to the motivation, invariably therein lies the reality of one’s search for love.

My prayer for us is a willingness to recognize the congruence of love as the thread that runs through all our experiences today.

If love is what is driving you, how can God assist you in recognizing the presence of it in your life today so that you don’t have to search so hard?  Share in the comments

God’s brilliant design of creation has an allowing quality that surpasses our understanding.  Just a simple look at the world of nature and one sees so many distinctions of life.  From the trees to the flowers to rocks to the bugs all in one landscape.  Then there are the multitude of the kinds of trees, flowers, rocks, and bugs.  Clearly nature demonstrates the multitude of possibilities that exist in the universe created by God and that is only what we can see.  Each tree creates different sounds when the wind blows through its branches. Each flower emits a particular fragrance. Each rock’s surface is unique to the touch.  Each bug has a taste for a particular kind of leaf.  There are so many distinctions drawn from one emanating love force.  To take it all in would be too much for us at once.  So God calls us to focus on the distinction of love.  Love present right here, right now, in our very breath.  The purpose of all those outer distinctions are to bring us back to the distinction of love that resides in our hearts reminding us that we need not seek it outside ourselves.  And when we do we will be reminded that the truth of it lies at home in our hearts.

My prayer for us is the ability to see the many distinctions of the world as the arrows of life pointing us back to the primary distinction of love already present in our hearts in this moment.

If you could make a reminder request from the multitude of choices present in your outer world to be a reminder of the love present in your heart, what would it be and do you have the courage to make the request today?  Share in the comments.

As we embrace the call of God to live in the love that we are at our core we become a blessing for the world. It sounds like too much or impossible because we are thinking with our own minds.  In the mind of God we are nothing less than spectacular.  We are the creation of the Creator of All Things and have within us the imprint of our Creator.  This cannot be changed.  No matter what happens to us on the outside.  No matter what stories we make from what happens, we cannot undo the imprint of our Creator.   This is the power of God.

My prayer for us is the courage to embrace the imprint of God that is steadily on our hearts at all times today.

If you knew deep down that nothing that happened to you could change your imprint of love, how would you choose to react to experiences of lack of love today?  Share in the comments.

God has placed deep within us a purpose.  Our greatest purpose is to be the love we were created in.  How that manifests for us depends upon the gifts and talents we have been given.  We each have a role to play. While we share the same mission, the way in which we carry that out will differ.  The overall message of love will be shared because of who we are being while what we are doing is different.  I can be most useful in a certain group of people based on the family and culture I was born into that you cannot.  You can be most useful in an area for which you have a passion that I do not.  The challenge I have found is in being accepting of how that usefulness comes about.  I recognize that I can be useful by relating to others who have faced some of the same difficulties that I have.  I did not come into this life wanting to be a message of love for other incest or obesity survivors.  Yet, given my experience of such sufferings and more importantly the path of profound transformation of love and forgiveness that I embarked upon as a result, makes me uniquely qualified to be the message of love in that arena.  So much for my idea of moving beyond it or never having to deal with it again.  But that is just my head still carrying judgment.  The true reality is that walking through the darkness of those experiences has brought me to the greatest sense of peace and wholeness that I never thought possible.  God has shown me the power of love and an unimaginable ability to turn every circumstance into an opportunity of love.  This is one of the most useful messages I can share through my being today.

My prayer for us is the courage to explore with curiosity the arenas of life in which we can be the most useful message of love today.

If you could choose to be useful in being the message of love in your world, what gifts would you ask God to provide you with to be able to do so today?  Share in the comments.